Back-to-school resources

The start of a new year is exciting but it can also be daunting. These back-to-school resources encourage students to learn more about themselves and others, set SMART goals, and think positively about the year ahead.
We also have a collection of fun and interactive educational games that are perfect back-to-school icebreakers.

Guess Who? Describe Someone I Know (7-11 years)
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Describe Someone I Know (All About Me Writing Prompts) (7-11 years) Tune into Guinea Pig FM radio and read a lively radio script. Listen to DJ George and co presenter Christabelle describe themselves. Read the listeners texts and emails describing the people they know. The child can then write their own description of someone they know to send to the radio show. Play Guess Who? Get someone to guess who the child has written about. Ask them to organise or structure their description into short paragraphs: appearance, character, what they do, how I feel about them. This series provides prompts to get the child to write. It provides starting points to encourage children of all abilities to write - even the most reluctant writers. With this series they will be inspired to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets and more. More than this, the child will learn writing techniques; simple, compound and complex sentences, connectives and spelling, punctuation and grammar tips. There is an emphasis on improving vocabulary - looking at lots of better word choices: harder adjectives, more powerful verbs and adverbs. 11 pages Watch the preview video below, for a sneak peak at this fantastic series… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7SVAi3BKe-A Cut and paste the link below, to purchase ‘All About Me’... https://teachingresources.co.za/product/all-about-me-get-going-with-creative-writing-and-other-forms-of-writing-7-11-years/ Cut and paste the link below, to purchase the complete Get Going With Creative Writing Series... https://teachingresources.co.za/product/get-going-with-creative-writing-complete-series-books-1-5-7-11-years/

Geography assignment - My world
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Grade 5 Geography assignment that can assist learners to improve spacial awareness. Children are asked to gather a series of pictures starting with their house and moving bigger to their street, neighbourhood, city, province country, and lastly the earth. The goal of the assignment is to develop research and map reading skills and to give children an idea of how small their environment is compared to the world.

Two icebreakers - 'Who are you?' and 'Find someone who...'
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Two icebreakers for the new year in the language classroom. 'Who are you?' helps learners to write about themselves. Can also be used as pre-writing activity for essay-writing. 'Find someone who...' is ideal for learners who don't each other yet, such as new grade 8s. Suitable for English Home Language and First Additional Language grades 7-12. Both Word and PDF versions included.


Growth Mindset Posters and Writing Prompts - Digital and Printable
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Having a print-rich classroom environment is great and goes a long way to inspiring our learners, but if we want them to internalise the messages, we need to give them an opportunity to reflect on what they're reading. That's where these posters and learner reflections come in. In this resource, you will get: - Colourful 16 Growth Mindset quote posters. - Don't have a colour printer? No problem! You will also receive a black and white version that your learners can colour in. Even better - they are involved in the classroom decor! - 16 Printable worksheets with a small version of the black and white poster for learners to colour in as well as 3 writing prompts based on the featured poster. - A Google Slides Slide Deck with 16 digital, colour versions of the worksheets with 3 writing prompts. *Download the preview for more information* Level-Up Thinkers

Growth Mindset
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Growth Mindset is an important skill to teach any child. How you think can affect how you perform.
Help your learners develop a growth mindset with this beautiful display board.
This pack includes everything you will need to create the growth mindset display board. It was designed to be printed on A3 paper.
Change your words. Change your mindset.